The Path to Wellness

Once you realize that you are a candidate for compassion
fatigue, or are already suffering its effects, exploring this new awareness
can lead to insights concerning past traumas, pain, and defeating behaviors.
A common and understandable coping mechanism in care giving is to simply stuff
the overwhelming emotions that surface repeatedly in your work. How else can
you keep going? Eventually, those emotions refuse to be ignored. All too often,
psychological and physical crisis occurs.

With support, insightful information, and authentic self-care,
you can begin to understand the complexity of the emotions you've been juggling
and, most likely, suppressing. Most people never take the time to understand
how their jobs affect them emotionally. Give yourself credit for moving forward
and affecting change. Your hard work will pay off.

Authentic and Sustainable Self Care Begins With You:

 Be kind to yourself.

 Enhance your awareness with education.

 Accept where you are on your path at all times.

 Understand that those close to you may not be there
when you need them most.